EDRG - Education, Reading Endorsement Program
EDRG 3115. Basic Preparation for Teaching Reading (2-0-2) Provides students with a fundamental framework in teaching reading - including terminology, emergent literacy, word recognition, and comprehension skills, phonics mastery and other techniques, methods, and materials.
EDRG 3116. Reading and Learning Strategies in the Middle Grades (3-0-3) Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education; Co-requisite: EDCI 3455. Models, theories and processes of reading instruction, study skills, and learning strategies. Integrated reading, writing, thinking, speaking, and listening across curricular areas is emphasized.
EDRG 4219. Diagnostic and Prescriptive Reading Instruction (2-2-3) Prerequisite: EDEC 3256 and EDEC 4235 and Admission to Teacher Education; Co-requisite: EDEC 4216. Analysis and remediation of diagnosed reading strengths and weaknesses using formal and informal assessment instruments and techniques. Required field component is part of the course.
EDRG 6116. Integrating Literacy Strategies in the Middle Grades (3-0-3) An examination of the reading and writing connection and several models of reading with implications for the design, development, and evaluation of appropriate instructional practices at the middle grades and secondary educational level.
EDRG 6118. Methods and Materials for Teaching Reading in Early Childhood (3-0-3) Principles and strategies of teaching reading, including the reading and writing connection. Provides a balance between theory and practice of reading methodologies.
EDRG 6148. Psychology of Reading: Understanding Readers and the Reading Process (2-0-2) Explores the psychological foundations of reading as a communication system and reading as a learned behavior. This course includes a study of the effects of the mental and physical aspects of learning to read - the maturation process.
EDRG 6245. Assessment and Classroom Instruction (2-2-3) Prerequisite: Consent of department. Formal and informal evaluation of students with reading difficulties. Procedures for recommended remediation.
EDGR 6255. Summer Reading Institute (4-2-5) Explores the psychological foundations of reading as a communication system and reading as a learned behavior. Formal and informal evaluation of students with reading difficulties; procedures for recommending remediation.
EDGR 6756. Classroom Literacy Seminar (1-0-1) This seminar will provide a forum for students to reflect upon strategy implementation in their classrooms. During the seminar students will present documentation of strategy implementation - Reading Endorsement Portfolio.
